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I don't think the Constitution specifically mentions gold

But you're wrong.

34 posted on 02/01/2004 7:42:05 AM PST by Jim Noble (Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)

To: Jim Noble; Mulder

Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

Hey, thanks for pointing this out, Jim. Something I had overlooked. And, off topic, but AHA - here is where the South was explicitly forbidden from seceding from the Union: No State shall enter into any ...Confederation; ...emit Bills of Credit (click here to see Confederate notes), all, ironically, totally against the same Constitution that the South was so upset that it claimed the North wasn't following. Berry interesting!

62 posted on 02/01/2004 10:33:19 AM PST by Xthe17th (Return America to a silver backed monetary system one dollar at a time! www.libertydollar.org)

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